Soccer authorities move toward tougher sanctions for racial abuse over last decade
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FILE - AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng gestures towards the crowd as he leaves the field after being subjected to racial abuse during a friendly soccer match in Busto Arsizio, near Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Boateng set soccer on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination when he walked off the field to protest racial abuse by an opposing team's fans a decade ago. His teammates had his back when he refused to tolerate the abuse from fans of a small provincial Italian club during a mid-season exhibition game in 2013.(AP Photo/Emilio Andreoli, File)FILE - Porto's Sergio Oliveira, center left, and Otavio, center right, talk with teammate Moussa Marega, center, as he tries leaves the pitch after hearing racist chants during a Portuguese league soccer match between Vitoria SC and FC Porto in Guimaraes, Portugal on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. Porto forward Moussa Marega had been racially abused by Vitoria fans who threw seats at him after he scored and pointed to his skin. When Marega, who was born in France but plays for Mali's national team, carried one of the seats above his head in defiance the referee gave him a yellow card. He then tried to walk off as teammates physically kept him on the field. (AP Photo)FILE - FIFA President Sepp Blatter holds a t-shirt to promote the FIFA campaign 'Say No To Racism' during a news conference at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)FILE - AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng sports a jersey reading "AC Milan against racism" prior to the start of the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Siena at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Kevin-Prince Boateng set soccer on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination when he walked off the field to protest racial abuse by an opposing team's fans a decade ago. His teammates had his back when he refused to tolerate the abuse from fans of a small provincial Italian club during a mid-season exhibition game in 2013. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)FILE - A big Nazi Swastika symbol is just about visible after being imprinted on the grass of the pitch at a European soccer championship qualification game between Croatia and Italy, in Split, Croatia Friday, June 12, 2015. The highest-profile points deduction was the one point UEFA took from Croatia in a qualifying group for Euro 2016. It involved a swastika image embedded in the field ahead of a match against Italy, played in an empty stadium because of the racist conduct of Croatian fans at a previous game. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)FILE - Referee Daniele Orsato stops the game following alleged racist chants against Sweden's Alexander Isak during the Euro 2020 group F qualifying soccer match between Romania and Sweden on the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)FILE - Sweden's Alexander Isak stands on the pitch as the game was briefly halted by referee Daniele Orsato following alleged racist chants against the players during the Euro 2020 group F qualifying soccer match between Romania and Sweden on the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)FILE - Andre Ooijer of PSV, right, gestures as Thierry Henry of Arsenal holds a lighter that was thrown on the pitch during the UEFA Champions League soccer match between PSV Eindhoven and Arsenal at the Philips stadium in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Wednesday Nov 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Fred Ernst, File)FILE - Croatia's Josip Simunic controls the ball during their World Cup qualifying playoff second leg soccer match with Iceland, in Zagreb, Croatia, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Croatia defender Simunic missed the 2014 World Cup because of an incident minutes after his national team qualified for the tournament. Simunic celebrated a victory over Iceland in Zagreb by leading fans in chants identified with the pro-Nazi Croatian regime during World War II.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
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FILE - AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng gestures towards the crowd as he leaves the field after being subjected to racial abuse during a friendly soccer match in Busto Arsizio, near Milan, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Boateng set soccer on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination when he walked off the field to protest racial abuse by an opposing team's fans a decade ago. His teammates had his back when he refused to tolerate the abuse from fans of a small provincial Italian club during a mid-season exhibition game in 2013.(AP Photo/Emilio Andreoli, File)
